“... Within the complex of Jewish medieval mysticism, a number of scholars going back to Gershom Scholem have noted a par- ticularly telling case involving the angel Metatron in Sefer Hekhalot, also known as 3 Enoch.92 Thought to date to the fifth or sixth century CE/AD (but perhaps considerably later), this work refers to the angel Metatron as "the lesser Yahweh," literally, "Yahweh, the little one," yhwh hgtwn (3 Enoch 12:5).93 The characterization of MMetatron stands in contrast to "the greater Yahweh" (48B:1, name 44). As noted by scholars, Gnostic texts (e. g., Pistis Sophia, chapter 7, dating to the third century CE/AD) mention "the lesser Yao," which would seem to point to an early tradition of the double-form of Yhwh.94 The representation of "two powers in heaven" in the Talmudic account of Elisha ben Abuyah (called Aher) in Hagigah 15a,95 repeated in 3 Enoch 16, serves as the basis for Alan Segal's dating of this "bimorphic" view of divinity to at least the third century CE/AD, and perhaps even to the second century CE/AD.96 Segal considers 3 Enoch 12:5 in connection with Philo's view of the logos as "the second God" (noted above) as well as his use of "two gods" (De Somniis 1.227-229).97 While the formulations of "angel" and "word" may seem quite distinctive, for Philo these were already related for him in part by his scriptural interpretation, as Segal has observed.9S ...”